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Article: Fast Forward: Cruising from Bangkok to Singapore, where an all-out throttle is everything.(Features)
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- Yachting
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- January 1, 2006
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Byline: Dag Pike
The drive from the Bangkok airport is all it takes to make you realize why there's so much traffic on the Chao Phraya. On the highway progress is painfully slow--you can almost measure it in yards per hour--whereas on the adjacent river the passenger traffic zooms along at 30 knots or more. Water is the way to travel in Thailand.
The river was also to be our route to the sea on the first modern luxury motoryacht to be built in Thailand. The plan was simple: We were to deliver the prototype Ladenstein 2000 from Bangkok to Singapore where it was going on display at the Singapore Boat Show. Unlike many other cities that have turned their ...
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